Chapter 14 Where Are the Old Men of the North?
The left battalion was easily breached, and under the guidance of the rout, a man in a loose silk robe, who had not had time to be crowned, was dragged out of the main tent, which was already on fire, by the hair, and then thrown in front of Gongsun Zhan's horse.
"Gongsun Fujun, please be sure to read it for my brother's sake, spare me once!" As soon as he got a chance to breathe, Cui Juye, who was already terrified to the extreme, immediately leaned over and kowtowed and begged for mercy, and he had already successfully identified the identity of the other party from the names of the people around him just now, and sorted out the interpersonal relationship.
I have to say, this is also some kind of talent.
"Who is your brother?" Gongsun Zhan, who was immediately observing the situation left and right, came back to his senses and frowned instinctively.
"My brother is Cui Min, the Taishou of Zhuojun, and Gongsun Fan, the younger brother of the Fujun clan, are holding up the ...... for the south of Changping" Cui Juye stopped abruptly in the middle of his words, because just after he reported that he was out of the house and pulled out the relationship, Gongsun Bogui, who was still a little hesitant, directly stretched out the lance in his hand and pierced his chest, making him lose the ability to speak and think.
Immediately, as Gongsun Chan easily lifted the lance and flicked it, the 'stargazing general', who was extremely favored by Yuan Shao in history, was like a rag on a pile of debris that had caught fire, and he no longer breathed.
In other words, Gongsun Zhan was excited and surprised that Yuan Shao arranged such a straw bag as the main general of the first battalion, but he didn't care too much, because there has never been a shortage of such people in this era.
For example, the former Yuzhou Thorn History Kong Ling, the authentic Yuzhou Thorn History, is much earlier than Liu Biao's Luoyang ...... Of course, he was not expected to be able to unify Benzhou like Tao Qian and Liu Biao, but as long as Runan had a population of two million people who were almost the best in the world, the largest smelting and handicraft base in the Han dynasty in Nanyang and an arsenal, the talents of the Yingchuan family, and the first-class fertile land in the world such as Chen Guo, Lu State, and Pei Guo, as long as they took a justifiable attitude and grasped one of the resources, it would be enough to gain a foothold in the troubled times.
But in reality?
In fact, when he was still alive and in office, everyone ignored him, so that at most there were four Yuzhou assassins in Yuzhou, and then his people died in a daze before the turmoil in Yuzhou, and they didn't even know if they died of illness or what's going on.
Anyway, just like this Cui Juye, the confusion is gone.
Why is this happening? Because as early as the period of Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the minister who was familiar with this person clearly told Dong Zhuo that Kong Ling was not worth mentioning, and he didn't need to be ignored at all, because he was just a 'talker'...... When you talk, you do things in one set, and when you do things, you don't know anything.
And the reason why this kind of person can be an official is nothing more than a high family and good at fooling.
However, the interesting thing about history is here, it stands to reason that the first thing that the so-called Three Kingdoms troubled times punctured was the camouflage of this waste, and it was this kind of waste that was eliminated for the first time. But it was precisely the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, and in the end, because of the long-term split, the gate valve monster that integrated the Heshi clan and Haoqiang was raised, and the gate valve monster raised more similar waste.
What is particularly sad is that the new waste is far better in quality and quantity than before, so the end result is that the ethnic minorities go south, and they still disdain to do 'mundane things', so that they die more and die more miserably." Then the poison of this waste continued until the end of the Tang Dynasty with the continuation of the Shi clan's gate valve.
Therefore, compared to those people, Cui Juye, who has not been destroyed by the war and has not been completely degenerate, is still okay, at least in order to 'maintain' his 'stargazing', he still has a grasp of the overall situation of the times, and he at least knows what he is doing - as for why Gongsun Chan is unwilling to give face to Gongsun Fan and Cui Min, he really can't blame him.
After returning to the front and throwing down Cui Juye's corpse, Gongsun Chan immediately turned his attention back to the battle command.
In other words, in fact, at this point, Gongsun Chan can already claim that the night raid was successful, because many times, the night raid eats this first bite of food, and it is extremely dangerous for both sides to continue.
From the attacker's point of view, the night attack itself is usually chosen because of the disadvantage of its own forces, or the opponent's camp is too strong to destroy openly, so if you continue to attack, it is undoubtedly possible to fall into the opponent's camp and it will be difficult to get out; From the defender's point of view, the most important thing at this point is not to fight back, but to avoid confusion...... Dispatching troops and horses out of the camp may be successful, but once the troops break away from the camp and cause a collapse, it may also cause greater losses.
But then again, in this battle, the choice of both the offensive and defensive sides seems to be so natural:
Gongsun Zhan's trip came with the resentment accumulated for more than ten years, and he even had the intention of dying before the war, how could he accept it when he saw it?
As for Yuan Shao's side, it was even more simple and direct, and they had no reason to risk fighting at all.
"Gongsun Bogui is really daring!" Seeing that the left camp was broken, Yuan Benchu, who had drunk a lot of wine before, and kept talking about falling asleep late at night, only felt a headache for a while, obviously stimulated by Gongsun Zhan's successful raid. "Let the front battalion open jaw and the rear battalion Ju Yi go out together, and recapture the left battalion with me in front and back, and rescue General Cui!"
"General, no!"
"Ming Gong is a little restless!"
"At the beginning, now is not the time to lose your temper......" After the battle began, the staff and officers in the Chinese army camp gathered around Yuan Shao, and at this time they hurriedly spoke out to persuade him.
"Ming Gong!" At this time, Chen Gong, who was the chief shogunate of Yuan Shao, didn't care about the unpleasantness that happened before, and also hurriedly came with his sword, and he was much more simply than the other staff. "The subordinates just went to the left gate to take a look at the situation, and the entire left battalion has all fallen, and there is no way to save it...... Please also give an order quickly, let the two main generals of the front and rear camps Ju and Zhang carefully guard the camp, and strictly order that they are not allowed to fight without authorization! β
"Gongsun Bogui has bullied me, how can I let him go?!" Yuan Shao was furious, and he didn't know where to find a sword in his hand and danced wildly, which startled the surrounding subordinate soldiers to retreat one after another. "If he is Gongsun Wenqi, he is a recognized general in the world, I will tolerate it for a while, don't I know the ability of this guy?! Back then, I was just a waste mixed with Yuan Highway in Luoyang all day long, and he must have only four or five thousand horsemen in his hands, but while half of my elite main force was still in the boundary bridge, he dared to come and shake his majesty with me......"
"What if you win, what if you lose?" Under the firelight, Chen Gongtai was a little impatient when he heard it, so he suddenly stepped forward and grabbed the other party's arms. "Ming Gong listens to me...... In today's battle, the victory or defeat actually does not matter, as long as our main force is not lost, it is good to guard the camp again, and forcing the battle is just a battle of will! β
"Warriors, the life and death of the country, how can it be a battle of will?" Yuan Shao was held down by the other party, and he became more and more angry.
"Ming Gong!" Feng Ji next to him couldn't help but persuade a few words. "Brother Gongtai is really right...... As long as our main force is not lost, and we continue to clamp down on the plain together with the soldiers and horses of the Qingzhou counties on the south bank of the Yellow River, today's small defeat is nothing more than a temporary complacency for our people, and let us swallow the plain a few days later. On the contrary, he hastily ordered the two generals to leave the camp, in case they were swept up by the defeated troops of the left battalion, and the small defeat turned into a big defeat, so that it was difficult to maintain a clamping posture, which would really affect the overall situation! β
In other words, how can Yuan Benchu be a fool?
He also understands this truth, today is just a temporary gain and loss in tactics, and strategically he still has enough advantages to speak of - Wen Chou, Li Jin, and Yu Ban took the elite of the Yanzhou army in Jieqiao, Xin Ping, Guo Tu and others were active in Yecheng; Qingzhou's local county troops are on the south bank of the Yellow River; Han Meng and Ji Yong took a part of the logistics people and most of the grain and grass on this expedition behind them and carefully guarded Juancheng.
In other words, this is certainly where the main force is, but as long as he Yuan Shao does not die tonight, the camp here is not lost, and the main force here is not lost to the point where he cannot gain a foothold here, then if the pincer offensive continues to be maintained, Gongsun Chan will still die slowly, and this battle is nothing more than slowing down the pace of the defeat of his people and Han Fu.
And this is the so-called high posture of bullying the small and bullying the weak, but in fact, it is also a real 'victory in the court' in a sense.
In short, this is indeed something to be proud of, and it is also the source of such a proud posture in his past, so in comparison, the current battle situation does not seem to be something to be angry about.
I don't know if I figured it out, or thought of something else, in short, Yuan Shao suddenly sneered, and then looked at the many staff members beside him who agreed on the same opinion, but finally threw the long sword in his hand to the ground, and then went to the high place in the camp, that is, the rammed earth platform in front of the tent to watch the situation.
And almost at the same time, Gongsun Zhan, who won the first war but was unwilling to give up, also realized his embarrassment and powerlessness...... In other words, the direction of Yuan Shaojun's camp at this time is actually very simple, that is, the Chinese army camp plus the front and rear left and right four battalions, originally Gongsun Chan thought that he should not have much resistance after many outstanding generals and elites of the Yuan army went to the boundary bridge, but in fact, after he broke the left battalion, he was unable to advance at all in the face of the three battalions that had been prepared and strictly defended.
The front battalion opened its jaw, and the rear battalion bowed to righteousness, each leading thousands of soldiers and horses to guard the camp.
In the words of Tian Kai, who personally led the troops to the front camp to test, Hejianzi's camp was as hard as a bone, and Yan Gang, who drove the defeated soldiers to the back camp to test, was even more direct, he was hit by an arrow in the arm and fled back in embarrassment - Zhang Jaw was still just guarding the big camp and not allowing the defeated soldiers to enter, Ju Yi simply mobilized a large number of archers, regardless of his own defeated soldiers, directly covering and shooting anyone who approached the camp, and in the panic, many Youzhou cavalry who drove the defeated soldiers were nailed to death in front of the camp together with the defeated soldiers.
It was difficult to overcome the two battalions that did not occupy the superior forces, but the large battalion of the Chinese army had several flaws...... But there are only a few flaws, the troops in the camp are too thick, if they can't be destroyed and decayed to the end, and when the time comes, they will fall into it, and they will open their jaws and Ju Yi together to attack, then they will really be wiped out.
"Lord!" In the night, Guan Jing was covered in blood and flashed out of the firelight, and his face was anxious. "Where are we going?"
"Go back!" Gongsun Zhan held a blood-dripping lance in his hand, looked at the already brightly lit enemy camp, knowing that Yuan Benchu, whom he hated the most, was among them, but he was not angry, but simply ordered. "Let all the righteous followers retreat east with me, and blow the trumpet and raise troops along the way!"
Everyone was stunned, but they didn't dare to say much when they heard the military order, and Gongsun Zhan's own 'righteous obedience', that is, he 'imitated' Gongsun Xun's establishment of a personal guard of more than 100 people (except for the white horse), also hurriedly ordered to blow the horn to assemble the troops - this is the most suitable command method for the night action of the cavalry troops.
And with the sound of horns and horses' hooves, Yuan Jun went up and down, from Yuan Shao and his subordinates, who personally climbed the rammed earth platform to watch the fire and guess the situation, to the soldiers guarding the village in the battalions below, including the frightened soldiers scattered in the gaps of the battalions and the left battalion, almost everyone was sure that Gongsun Zhan had indeed collected his troops.
From a tactical point of view, this is a very rational choice.
"My lord." On the rammed earth general platform, a military official soon came here to ask for instructions on behalf of Gao Lan, the deputy general of the main battalion. "General Gao Ran, please ask Ming Gong for instructions, do you want to send troops to gather the defeated troops, and go to find General Cui Zhonglang?"
"It's nature." Yuan Shao came back to his senses and immediately bowed his head.
"Ming Gong, wait for the dawn!" At this moment, Feng Ji suddenly stepped forward to stop the military official, and then spoke earnestly. "Be careful...... What if Gongsun Bogui cheated away, waiting for us to open the door and suddenly counterattack? β
"That's right." Chen Gong was also solemn, and hurriedly persuaded again. "The cavalry battle comes and goes like the wind, Ming Gong cannot be underestimated, and the left camp is in such a situation, I am afraid that Cui Juye is already more auspicious, why bother looking for him again?"
On the stage, Yuan Shao, who was already fully clothed, sighed, but retorted again: "What you say makes sense, but this matter is not like this." Cui Juye and Cui Jiqi are newly promoted, one is a lieutenant general, the other is a cavalry captain, and each has thousands of generals for my left and right battalions...... Why is it so favored, don't you want to be a horse bone in the gold market and collect the hearts of the people? Collect the hearts of Hebei people? No matter what happens to Cui Juye's life and death, after what happened last night, if I don't save it today, what is it in the eyes of Cui Jiqi in the right camp? β
"Cui Jiqi is not as good as Cui Juye, he is a person who understands." Chen Gong also paused. "I won't be suspicious of Ming Gongsheng because of this matter!"
"Cui Jiqi won't, but other people in the Cui family will, such as Ji Yong, a new Qinghe local, will also be in Jizhou in the future!" This time it was Yuan Shao's turn to hold down Chen Gong. "And even if they don't dare to complain against me, they will be disgusted with you in the public stage! I use the public platform not only to appease the hearts of the people in Yanzhou, but to sincerely take the public platform as my heart's responsibility, and use your wisdom to command the hearts of the people in the north and south of the river for me...... I've got to think about it! β
Chen Gong was stunned for a moment, but suddenly retreated to the stage and bowed: "My subordinates are ashamed!" β
And after saying this, the person walked away with his sword, but he didn't stop, and disappeared between the light and shadow of the night, and Yuan Shao didn't know what to do.
However, a moment later, a herald with Ling Yu came from the high place to meet him, saying that Chen Gongwu had led 500 men and horses out of the small gate on the left side to the left camp to find people. And Chen Gongtai had something to leave for Yuan Shao before leaving, so he should continue to close the gate tightly, and there was no need to send too many people out of the camp, and if he encountered Gongsun Zhan's counterattack, he did not have to go out of the camp to rescue.
Yuan Shao looked at each other with several confidants such as Xu You and Feng Ji, but they really didn't know what to say...... Chen Gong behaved like this, naturally regardless of his personal safety and courage, and wanted to use his own actions to block the mouths of Cui Yan, Ji Yong and all Hebei people. However, he is so capricious, but it always makes people feel helpless.
If nothing else, if Gongsun Chan really kills a horse pistol, how can he not save him Chen Gongtai? If you really want to talk about people's hearts, ten Cui Juye can't be worth one Chen Gongtai! The former is only half of Qinghe's popularity, while the latter is the local representative of the whole Yanzhou.
In the final analysis, Chen Gong is grateful to Yuan Shao for such a posture, but also with the anger of last night!
However, now, Yuan Benchu and the others still hope that Gongsun Chan will not come back, which is the best result. But how could Gongsun Bokyu just leave?
Just when Yuan Benchu and a group of henchmen and staff and military officials stood on the rammed earth platform and stretched their necks to stare speechlessly at the broken left camp, suddenly, the shouting and killing in the night suddenly rose again, and everyone followed the sound and turned around, but saw the fire in the right camp behind them, which shocked Yuan Shao almost without blood and planted himself from the platform!
It turned out that when Gongsun Zhan broke the left camp before, he had already learned from the captives that the former battalion commander was Zhang Jaw who had crossed the river to attack the mountains and was famous in Hebei, and the rear battalion commander Ju Yi was the one who had faced Lu Bu in Hanoi and rescued Yuan Shao...... In short, none of these three places are easy to mess with, except for the right battalion, although the main general Cui Yan is very famous, he is a scholar and a recruit like Cui Juye!
As a result, his men gathered their troops and horses to feign retreat, but they took advantage of the absolute mobility advantage of the cavalry on the battlefield and the tactical suddenness of the return of the horse gun, and suddenly turned around and rushed straight to the right battalion!
Poor Cui Yan is a moral gentleman, and he is not good at leading troops, so he was negligent after the war, and even ordered to open the door to rescue the defeated soldiers everywhere...... As a result, he was caught off guard by Gongsun Zhan and rushed directly into the camp!
"Shaft!" Yuan Benchu saw the fire of the right camp, and laughed angrily. "How dare you lie to me like this?! Let Gao Ran lead 5,000 Chinese soldiers to help! β
Feng Ji and Xu You just wanted to speak, but they also shut up.
After all, Cui Juye seems to be more than lucky, if Cui Yan is also dead, don't say what the local people in Qinghe are, just say that if Yecheng next to him knows about it, the people of Hebei will not be attached, wouldn't it delay the overall situation?
Therefore, at this time, the two people in the camp who could really dissuade Yuan Shao chose to remain silent. And in all fairness, their choice is really understandable.
It's just that the problem is that from Yuan Shao to these two people, and then to Gao Lan, who was ordered to lead his troops out of the camp in a hurry, almost everyone underestimated the power of Gongsun Chan and the five thousand cavalry......
This is also something that can't be helped, after all, for a long time, Gongsun Chan has been obscured by Gongsun Xun's light.
In the eyes of everyone, Gongsun Chan may be no different from Gongsun Fan and Gongsun Yue, just the so-called 'brother of General Wei', the so-called 'not bad'. Even if Gongsun Zhan rose up for a while, broke the yellow scarf, seized the plain, gathered two million people at one time, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and threatened Hebei, it would be useless. Because in the eyes of the resourceful, this world still has to be fought between Gongsun Xun and Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Chan is at best just a spoiler who is struggling.
That's right, of course...... But again, because these people have different perspectives, they always ignore the situation of Gongsun Chan himself, and they forget that Gongsun Bogui is also a typical border county cavalry general, and he is an extremely good cavalry general.
Since childhood, he has been educated by the children of military aristocrats in border counties; Skillful in bow and horse, outstanding in martial arts; As early as before the start of the troubled times, he participated in and experienced large-scale border county battles such as the Bullet Khan Mountain, and after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he repeatedly led troops to participate in the war, and his military experience can be called rich...... This kind of person can ignore him strategically, but if you want to underestimate him tactically, you will really have to pay the price.
Gao Ran acted very fast, and even had a feeling of hurry, his person personally put on a strong and stubborn spirit, and he was the first to go out of the camp, and then he should enter the right camp first to save people, but the deputy general of the main battalion had just seen Cui Yan who was still holding on under the firelight, and he had not had time to ask, but like Yuan Shao on the stage before, he was suddenly attracted by the movement behind him, and then woke up in anger.
It turned out that Gongsun Zhan had expected that the main camp would send people out to rescue the right camp this time, so after breaking through the right camp with one blow, he did not concentrate on killing and wounding in the camp, but only left Tian Kai to lead 2,000 people to continue to set fire to kill people, and then he himself led more than half of the soldiers and horses to quietly withdraw and lurk outside the camp and rear camp of Yuan's army.
It is important to know that the distance between the camps is very interesting...... It must not be too far away, and it is not easy for them to support each other, nor to inflict mutual casualties on the enemy troops in the gaps of the camp; It should not be too close, as if it were too close, it would lose the significance of the division of the battalion, and the troops' efforts to prevent fire prevention and prevent the rout of the troops would be in vain.
So in fact, the distance between the camps is two or three hundred paces.
In the dark night, the right battalion has caught fire, and the Chinese battalion is also releasing a large number of reinforcements, and there is chaos everywhere, so Gongsun Bogui was able to easily pull out the antlers that were originally blocking between the two battalions, and then wait for the fighters. After Gao Ran hastily led the troops out of the camp, due to the distance between the camp, his people had already entered Cui Yan's right camp in front as the commander, and some of the reinforcements behind had not had time to leave the camp!
At this moment, Gongsun Bogui did not hesitate anymore, and personally charged forward with Wang Men, Guan Jing and other henchmen, leading the cavalry to trample on this army that was stuck in the two battalions!
This reinforcement army, which was mainly based on foot soldiers, was dispersed on the spot, and then fled to the camp to which he belonged according to his instinct.
On the rammed earth general stage, Yuan Benchu was dumbfounded, but he was speechless for a while.
"Ming Gong retreats quickly!" The first one to come back to his senses was Feng Ji, who hugged Yuan Shao's waist and dragged him down. "The two generals Zhang and Ju will arrive soon, and the Ming Duke has a daughter, so there is no need to risk ......"
Xu You also hurriedly stepped forward and pushed Yuan Shao down: "Let's go at the beginning, the matter has come to this, your personal safety is the top priority, and the rest is not enough...... You follow the Yuan Tu to the back arrow tower for temporary shelter, I am in charge of the army here, just dispatch the defense! β
Yuan Shao woke up from his distraction, and while he was ashamed, he gritted his teeth and prepared to leave Yu Fengji.
However, just when he was about to take shelter for a while, suddenly, a voice that was obviously very unfamiliar, but with a hint of familiar taste, suddenly sounded in the camp, its voice was so loud, like spring thunder, shocking half of the camp, and also made Yuan Shao's ears rumble:
"Yuan Benchu! In the past, on the Beibi Mountain, you insulted me in public, forcing me to leave in shame, and today I broke your camp gate, killed your favorite generals, and slaughtered your soldiers, but you didn't dare to come to welcome guests? ! β
Yuan Shao only felt that his blood was surging for a while, and it was difficult to control himself, so he turned back to the general's platform again.
"Why should Ming Gong be angry?!" Yuki was almost crying. "In the darkness of the night, the bow has no eyes! Think long-term! β
"How can you care about everything in the world?!" Yuan Shao's eyes were about to split, but he pushed Feng Ji away, and then pulled out the long sword from Xu Yu next to him, pointing in the direction of the sound. "If you care about the gains and losses, how can a few children of the Gongsun clan be on a par with the Yuan clan in ten years?! I have tens of thousands of people in my camp today, if even a few thousand soldiers of Gongsun Chan are hiding, how will I be against Gongsun Wenqi in the future? Beat the drum and raise the fire, send the whole army to meet the enemy, and then go to tell Gongsun Zhan, I, Yuan Shao, am here, and I will never retreat today, he wants to see me, so he will come here in person for a while! β
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"Shao is both green and heavy, separated by the big river, the old blasphemy pincer plain, Zhan is helpless, but he wants to surprise the army to cross the old blasphemy attack. Jun Cheng Guan Jing persuaded in the city, and then sighed: "In the past, when I visited Shao in Luozhong, Shao regarded me as worthless, and now here, General Wei also regards me as worthless, but my husband was born in the world, how can I be depressed for a long time?" Today's war is not only a matter of the plains, but also a matter of the world! 'Jing was silent, until night, but he was clothed with perseverance and perseverance...... And Zhan broke through the left camp and killed Cui Juye, but withdrew, on the way, Gu Jing asked: 'What is the value of Zhan tonight?' Jing Yu immediately replied: "You can be ten thousand gold!" Chan smiled and said, "It's not enough." Then he turned around and re-attacked, broke the right camp, and followed the high view of the rear army into Yuan Shaozhong's military camp, killing and wounding tens of millions, as for the longitudinal horse raised his voice to ask Yuan Shao, shocked Yuan Ying. After drinking and asking, Gu Jing was silent, Jing knew what he meant, and immediately raised his voice and said: "Today's general can dump the country!" Chan couldn't stop laughing. - "New Yanshu". Volume 67, Biography of the Princes and Grandsons